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  • Well,this is a tricky site to navigate,trying hard to not make a pigs ear of the blog,Im sure once I get familiar with all the icons my posts will get a bit more professional-like!! Before I get on to other interesting stuff from yesterday,today I’m multitasking like all the ladies do!! I,E.Making some bird records…

  • Well going back to the ringing session this week,having trapped 2 Long Tailed Tits in the feeding flock,I could not remember when I had last caught a LOTTI at this site so I checked the Junta de Los Rios excel folder and found that since I had started ringing there in March 2000 I had…

  • Where there are English names for the moths I shall use them as the main option

  • Maybe better add a few notes for the uninitiated regarding these birds.So working along from left to right top line. Keeping it simple Female Sardinian Warblers as a rule have a grey crown and males a jet black crown.They are the commonest scrub warbler down here.I must apologise for all the fingers in the shots.They…

  • Any Monty Python fans will understand!! Well for starters it rained enough to settle the dust.Don say i didn’t tell you. LOL.I keep telling my friends, trust me I’m a doctor. Being a weather forecaster must be a nightmare, look at poor Michael Fish (For those old enough to remember him) W.wind it wasn’t for…

  • RAIN!! Well it stated raining at 5pm but its just drizzle not damaging but good for the campo which badly needs it. A good friend went birding locally today just for an hour or so at the Guadalquiton Bunker beach area before rain arrived .,and reported House Sparrows, Goldfinch (on passage),Crested Larks,White Wagtails (on passage)…

  • Rain?? Well despite all the doom and gloom on the weather forecasts as per usual it looks as if in our little corner of SW Spain is going to miss the worst of it, but watch this space!! So early tomorrow off bird ringing at my main ringing site where the 2 major rivers of…

  • Well,everyone has to start their blog somewhere so why not with this Sickle-bearing Leaf Leaf Katydid Phaneroptera sparsa. I moth trap from my balconies here in Sabinillas Malaga province S.Spain regularly each month and its surprising what wildlife is attracted to the lights or to the moths in and around the traps and this is…

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